Tweet NOTE : read the rest of the series, or check out the source code. If you enjoy read­ing these exer­cises then please buy Crista’s book to sup­port her work. Fol­low­ing on from the last post, we will look at the Monolith style today.   Style 3 – Monolith As the name suggests, this style

Tweet NOTE : read the rest of the series, or check out the source code. If you enjoy reading these exercises then please buy Crista’s book to support her work. Following on from the last post, we will look at the Go Forth style today.   Style 2 – Go Forth This style is named

Tweet NOTE : read the rest of the series, or check out the source code.   Prologue I was at Joy of Coding earlier this year and one of the highlight for me was Crista Lopes’ keynote  Exercises in Programming Style. Crista demonstrated how a simple problem of calculating term frequency can be written in

Tweet Update 24/08/2015 : some helpful people pointed out that I’ve missed a couple of other notable conferences here, including: Leetspeak (10th Oct Stockholm) Distributed Matters Berlin (19th Sep) and Barcelona (21st Nov) CodeMotion Berlin (2nd-3rd Nov), Milan (20th-21st Nov) and Madrid (27th-28th Nov) Lambda World (24th Oct Cadiz)   It’s almost that time of the year again, that

Tweet Note: see the rest of the series so far.   I stumbled across this post the other day and problem 2 seems like something I can easily do in APL since it essentially requires you to interleave two arrays. The problem is: Write a function that combines two lists by alternatingly taking elements. For example: given